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of an SWC game on Nov. 25, 1926, when General Ike Ashburn
gave the play-by-play account of A&M's 28-0 victory over Texas
at College Station.
Game officials and their orderly assignment became a part of
the SWC Office in the 1920's along with cooperation with the
Southwest Officials Association, a longtime partner of the SWC,
while legislation governing scouting of opponents went into effect
during the 1927-28 academic year.
The first of several hundred SWC competitors in the Olympic
games (42 SWC athletes, two head coaches, six individual and
team medal winners were represented in the Seoul Olympics of
1988 while 62 competitors and officials from SWC schools quali-
Conference Presidents, In Order of Service
One of the greatest
track & field athletes
of all time, Carl Lewis
attended the University
of Houston.
University of Texas
alum Jill Sterkel was
a member of four
U.S. Olympic teams
and is now a
Longhorn coach.
fied for the 1992 Olympics) was a meritoriuos sprinter on the
United States' 1928 team — Rice's Claude Bracey.
As the conference moved into the 1930s and 1940s growing
and maturing programs in all areas — from track and field to
baseball to tennis to swimming — were taking shape for the seven
teams who survived the comings and goings and formed the crux
of the SWC until Texas Tech entered in 1958. Houston later gained
admission into the SWC for the 1971-73 academic year (competing for the first time in football in 1976), and the SWC enjoyed
some of its most nationally-successfull football seasons since
SMU, TCU and Texas A&M captured American college grid titles
from 1935-39.
The settling effect brought with it the need to have a full-time
office, headed by an Executive Secretary (later re-titled Commis
si 4-191 5-W. T. Mather Texas
1915-1916-A.C. Love, Texas A&M
1916-1917-J.C. Futrall, Arkansas
1917-1918-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1918-1919-W. W. Watkins, Rice
1919-1920-R. G. Soutar, Oklahoma
1920-1922-J. S. Mcintosh, SMU
*1922-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1922-1934-D. A. Penick, Texas
1934-1937-E. W. McDiarmid, TCU
1937-1941-Henry Trantham, Baylor
1941-1943-J. S. Waterman, Ark.
1943-1944-J. c. Dolley, Texas
1944-1046-H. E. Bray, Rice
1946-1948-Gayle Scott, TCU
1948-1950-R. A. Leflar, Arkansas
1950-1951-D. W. Williams, A&M
1951-1953-J. D. Bragg, Baylor
1953-1955-H.E. Bray, Rice
1955-1957-E. D. Mouzon, Jr., SMU
1957-1959-0. B. Williams, Texas
1959-1961-Henry B. Hardt, TCU
1961-1963-Delbert Swartz, Ark.
1963-1965-Chris Groneman, A&M
1965-1967-Alan Chapman, Rice
1967-1968-Monroe Carroll, Baylor
1968-1971-J. William Davis. Tech
1971-1973-Harold Jeskey, SMU
1973-1975-J. Neils Thompson, Texas
1975-1977-Kenneth W. Herrick, TCU
1977-1979-Albert Witte, Arkansas
1979-1981-Charles Samson, Jr., A&M
1981-1983-James A. Castefieda, Rice
1983-1985-Edwin P. Horner, Baylor
1985-1987-Michael Johnson, Baylor
1987-1989-Robert M. Sweazy, Tech
1989-1991-James Vick, Texas
1991-1993-Paul Rogers, SMU
1993-1995-Joseph Helmick, TCU
1995-1996-Tom Adair, Texas A&M
^Completed Mcintosh's term in 1922
Conference Commissioners, In Order of Service
1938-1945-Dr. P.W.St. Clair
1945-1950-James H. Stewart
1950-1973-Howard Grubbs
1973-1982-CliffSpeegle
1982-1993-FredJacoby
1993-1995-Steven J. Hatchell
1995-1996-Kyle Kallander
sioner). In 1938 Dr. P.W. St. Clair assumed a part-time position as
the SWCs first Executive Secretary and served in that position
until May, 1945. He was followed by James H. Stewart (1945-50),
the conference's first full-time Executive Secretary), Howard
Grubbs (1950-73), Cliff Speegle (1973-82), and fourth full-time
Commissioner Fred Jacoby (1982-93) before Steve Hatchell (1993-
95) and Kyle Kallander (1995-96).
The SWC maintained the oldest continuous contractual agreement (from 1942-95) with a major bowl game between the conference and the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association. This gridiron
marriage produced numerous battles for national supremacy and
an always-entertaining contest on New Year's Day since the initial
classic in 1937.
From football legends such as Hall-of-Famers Darrell Royal
of Texas, Jess Neely of Rice, and Madison 'Matty' Bell of four
SWC schools, to Baseball Hall of Fame member Teddy Lyons of
Baylor to Olympic champions such as Houston's Carl Lewis to
Women's Basketball Players of the Year Kamie Etheridge of Texas
and Sheryl Swoopes of Texas Tech, the Southwest Conference
continues to produce exciting moments in intercollegiate athletics.
SWC
Southwest Conference Basketball